Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Sure, just ask hinkjc about their lavendar araucana breeding project.

Lanae

 

[Medicine Man]

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Yeah but that one is obvious. SO is the barred but I had never heard of that until today. I thought these birds really were "pure" as in from S. America.

 

[cashdl]

I know a breeder here in CA that has been working on the Mille Fleur color for years. That is not a natural color that araucana comes in.

There are several breeders working on the Barred version. Some have kicked around a cuckoo araucana.

The trick is getting them to breed true.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

There is no such thing as pure. Even the two original birds used to make the araucana werent' pure. They were a mix of various local chickens that eventually ended up as the breeds the araucana came from.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Resolution has several great threads on here about the south american chickens and where they all came from.

There is a standard of perfection for the araucana breed. It only allows for the white, black, Black Breasted Red, and Duckwing. There are lots of other colors that are not breed standards, that people breed for.

Lanae

 

[Medicine Man]

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Yes I'm aware, I was dumbing it down to mean that I thought they were a breed that was frozen as a snapshot of time, not a trendy designer like the Ameraucana. It's okay.

 

[Medicine Man]

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This I'm familiar with, I thought the N.A. Araucana was better preserved. No big deal, it's just not what I was looking for. Thanks.

 

[cashdl]

OOHH don't let the ameraucana breeders here you say that. LOL! talk about ruffled feathers. I will say that getting araucanas to breed true for color, tufts, rumplessness, leg color, egg color, all in one bird in part of the fun and challenge.

I had a beautiful splash hen that was almost perfect. Body, legs, eggs, tufts, perfect. I traded her for something else cause I like duckwings better. Fickle me.

I am having so much fun with this breed. I love the challenge.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

The araucana has the distinction of having something that other chickens don't. TUFTS!!! ( some of the time ) plus they're rumpless ( for the most part).

They look different than other chickens, they lay usually blue eggs ( in a perfect world) sometimes green. Whats not to like. Course I have never taken the easy road.

I do have barred rock, EE's, Rhode Island Red, and Cochins for my egg layers, but they don't mix with my araucana's. I am not interrested in new colors of the araucana, just perfecting the ones I have.

Lanae

 

[star2525]

My Roo in my Avatar is BBR, he's tailed, has nice tufts both the same size and shape and he throws the same to his chicks, I have another Roo out of him that is a Carbon Copy of him.

I also had a hen from another breeder that had a real long teardropped tuft and the other tuft was short, she threw tufts that was of equal size to her large tuft to her chicks.

I also bred that Rooster in the Avatar to the White Hen willow legged from Hinks, out of that I got a clean faced chick that was Blue in color and rumpless.

I only have one Black Hen left this year, I had 2 until summer, every year I get a chick that is totally Black and am wondering if this is coming from the Black Hen and maybe my rumpless cleanfaced Splash Rooster, the other Roosters are Birchen/Duckwing, Blue Red, and BBR, so I'm guessing this is from the Splash Rooster and one of those Black Hens. I have a young Black Chick again this year.

It is challenging to see what you get.

This year I only have 2 Hens left of the original Hens I got from UCON, they are cleanfaced and BBR, I'll breed my Avatar Rooster to those 2 Hens so that I can keep that genetic family in my flock, even though they will be tailed I want to keep those going and not loose those genetics. Then I'll mix up my breedings with the rest of my rumpless birds to ones with tufts, so I'm going to be creating and also preserving.

Victoria